A meeting place for myth, imagination, and mystery in pop culture. One of the things I look forward to each New Year’s eve is the 48-hour Twilight Zone marathon on the Syfy Channel. With the close of 2009 and the shift into 2010 I spent several hours catching all the episodes I could and marveled again at how this series still holds up some fifty years later due to great television writing. In a previous post I used an episode of The Twilight Zone as a metaphor in application to current events. I will do the same with this post as I consider the episode “The Midnight Sun.” This episode was written by Rod Serling and it aired on November 17, 1961 as a part of the third season for the series. Serling’s opening narration, which can be seen in the video clip below, is as follows: “The word that Mrs. Bronson is unable to put into the hot, sodden air is ‘doomed,’ because the people you’ve just seen have been handed a death sentence.
The story surrounds two women, Norma, and her neighbor, Mrs. Cooler Reality Contradicts Greenhouse Theory; 'The Midnight Sun' To the Editor: Larry Ephron's July 25 letter, suggesting that a consequence of the greenhouse effect might be the hastening of an ice age, rather than the commonly accepted global heat wave, brings to mind a television program nearly 30 years old. In a ''Twilight Zone'' episode called ''The Midnight Sun,'' Rod Serling painted a picture of an earth that has spun out of its orbit, moving closer to the sun and growing hotter every day.
The episode focuses on a young artist, who is struggling to survive in the sweltering heat, even as her thermometer bursts and her canvases melt. She finally collapses from the intense heat. When she awakes, she sees icicles forming on the window and snow flurries outside. Believing she has simply been through a dream, she is much relieved. Such, too, is the picture painted by Mr. The ''Twilight Zone'' episode is, of course, only one more piece of evi-dence that there is nothing new under the sun. Global warming and the ice age of 2007 - Twilight Zone.
This week's frigid weather throughout most of North America comes on the heels of the UN conference on global warming, at which the UN bureacrats repeated the official story that (1) the Earth is getting warmer and (2) that western countries must surrender their basic industries. The global warming faithful display no shame or remorse no matter how much bitter weather the world must endure. The sequence of events the past few days remind me of the Twilight Zone episode (Midnight Sun) in which the Earth was careening toward the sun, causing temperatures to rise, water to dry up and the people of the Earth to panic and resort to violence.
By the end of the episode we find out that it was all a dream and that the Earth was not, in fact, careening toward the sun. In fact, the Earth was careening out of orbit away from the sun. The world was growing colder instead of hotter. Dreaming of unbearable heat - this is either the Twilight Zone character or a UN bureacrat see previous - Winter of 1994. Midnight sun twilight zone. TWILIGHT ZONE: MIDNIGHT SUN (WITH COMMENTARY. "Twilight Zone" The Midnight Sun (TV episode 1961. The Midnight Sun. Plot[edit] The Earth has begun moving away from its usual orbit and is gradually rotating towards the sun. A prolific artist, Norma, and her landlady, Mrs. Bronson, are the last people in their apartment building. Everyone else has either moved north where it is cooler or perished from the extremely high temperatures. Norma and Mrs. Bronson try to keep each other company as they see life as they know it erode.
As the temperature grows hotter the two women increasingly perspire. Feeling that her latest painting might cheer her friend, Norma displays a beautiful oil of a waterfall cascading over a lush pond, implied to be that of Taughannock Falls near Ithaca, New York (specifically in Ulysses). The scene cuts to the apartment at night with snow outside the window. Production notes[edit] The effect of the oil paintings melting was accomplished by painting the pictures in wax on the surface of a hotplate.
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